Osprosys

Knowledge management – ‘a thinking about thinking’

In essence, it is a method for capturing the gist of what each member of the team learns in the course of a new task or project so another member can use it later.

Knowledge Management caters to the critical issues of organizational adaptation, survival and competence in face of increasingly discontinuous environmental change.... Essentially, it embodies organizational processes that seek synergistic combination of data and information processing capacity of information technologies, and the creative and innovative capacity of human beings."

Osprosys’ Knowledge Management seeks to make the best use of the knowledge that is available to our organization, creating new knowledge in the process. It is helpful to make a clear distinction between knowledge on the one hand, and information and data on the other. "Knowledge capture” -Managing this capture allows our system to grow into a powerful information asset.

Knowledge Management involved developing sophisticated data analysis and retrieval systems with little thought to how the information contained would be developed or used. Osprosys’ best strategy was to make tacit knowledge explicit. We look more closely at the ways in which knowledge is created and shared. So a link grew between learning theory and management.

Osprosys relates knowledge management with organizational learning. We believe that learning and doing are more important to organizational success than dissemination and imitation.